Researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have developed the world's first achromatic lens for neutron imaging. The lens overcomes a longstanding obstacle in the field: focusing neutrons of ...

An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new species of harvester ant, officially named Messor odrysarum. The discovery was made by researchers Albena Lapeva-Gjonova of ...

The interactions between microscopic algal cells and bacteria in the oceans play a pivotal role in the global carbon cycle. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now taken an important step toward ...

A technique for judging whether a common mineral formed through biological activity could aid the search for ancient life on Earth and Mars. Apatite is a ubiquitous phosphate mineral found in ...

Law enforcement agents misused crowd-control weapons during protests against the Trump administration's immigration ...

Researchers at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau have achieved a key experimental breakthrough: For the first time, the spontaneous macroscopic coherence of magnons—the quantized excitations of ...

Mathematics has always been at the core of securing information. From online banking to government communications, modern ...

Who hasn't dreamed of flying like a bird? But do birds actually enjoy flying as much as we imagine? A new study by ...

Astronomers are closer to solving the mystery of how supermassive black holes feed themselves thanks to new images from the ...

Are giant sinkholes in China's karst mountains havens or traps for the rare plants that inhabit them? A new study finds they ...

When playing the classic game "20 Questions," one may begin with the common opener: "Animal, vegetable, or mineral?" ...

Future quantum computing will require correlations between distant modules—a feature known as distributed entanglement.